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Friday, April 27, 2012

In February 10, 2003 the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
recommended that Americans should prepare for a biological, chemical, or
radiological terrorist attack by assembling a “disaster supply kit”,
including duct tape and plastic sheath, three days worth of food and
water, a radio with fresh batteries and emergency kits both for the home
and vehicle.http://edition.cnn.com/2003/US/02/11/emergency.supplies/
The warning was made because of recent intelligence reports
explaining the risk of a terrorist attack. Of course, the following day
stores all across America saw a surge in sales of these items. Because
Duct Tape sold out in many places, the incident became known as the
“Duct Tape Alert”.

Shelter-In-Place

“The Duct Tape Alert” was essentially a recommendation so that people
would have the materials needed for a Shelter in Place strategy.
What Shelter in Place
basically means is that due to a NBC attack or other disaster you find a
room with no windows or small ones, maybe a bathroom, walk in closet or
large pantry, and you seal it as well as possible using duct tape and
plastic sheet. The plastic would be used for windows and doors that
would be harder to seal using duct tape alone. AC, electric sockets and
ventilations should be sealed as well. You are supposed to stay put
listening to the radio until told its safe to leave the shelter. In
theory, you shelter in place for just a few hours until the threat is
over.
How effective is this strategy? Based on several reports that I’ve
read I’d say its of marginal efficiency, and it will strongly depend on
how effectively sealed the room was, but it is still better than
nothing.

Stay Put Kit

Besides Sheltering in Place there’s other reasons why a kit for when
staying home makes sense. Expanding the kit just a bit makes it
applicable for various other scenarios, many of them much more probable
than an NBC terrorist attack. Thinking of tornado and earthquakes, your
home may suffer structural damage which you would need to patch up as
well as you can until proper repairs can be made. Having plywood pre-cut
for windows before storms hit is common practice for many in tornado
country. In sieged Sarajevo, plastic sheet was used to shut windows that
had been blasted after the city was shelled. What if a tree smashed
through the living room leaving a huge gap opened or you have to pull
someone out of the rubble after a quake?
The suggested kit does not include obvious tools most people already
have, like screwdrivers, hammer, a saw, or even better for those in
wooded areas, a gasoline chainsaw.
A SP Kit should include:

Duct Tape:3M 2245 Scotch Heavy Duty All-Weather Duct Tape, 1.88-Inch x 45-Yard, 1-Pack
We all know how useful it is so you probably have some already. I’ve
mentioned how Gorilla tape is probably the best tape on the market, but
you may want to buy some more rolls of cheaper common gray duct tape
because Gorilla tae is probably overkill for sealing a door. Don’t go
too cheap though, some of the cheapest stuff hardly sticks at all to
surfaces and easily comes off on its own. So as to have an accurate
estimate, choose in which room you would shelter in place and add up the
necessary linear yards to seal the chosen room. Add to that 20% as a
margin of error and waste and keep that duct tape apart to be used only
when sheltering in place.

Plastic Sheet:Clear Plastic Poly Sheeting 10′ x 100′ 6 mil
Another common multi-purpose item. Can be used for everything from
sealing openings, making shelter or collecting rain water, just to
mention a couple of the many uses it has. It helps a lot that it can be
found dirt cheap sometimes in hardware stores. Here in Ireland, I’ll
tape a large plastic sheet with me when hiking in case I have to
improvise shelter.

Staple Gun:Stanley TR45K Light Duty Staple Gun Kit
Havent seen this one mention often. It will not seal of course like duct
tape would, but it makes for much more solid shelter construction. If a
section of your house is destroyed or a window broken, folding over the
edge of the plastic sheet two or three times and then stapling it will
make a better improvised window or wall. A nail gun would be perfect to
use in combination with plywood.
If you are ever left with nothing, but you manage to salvage some
plywood, some 2x4s, plastic sheet, duct tape, staple gun, a hammer and
some nails, you can make a pretty acceptable shelter until you find
something better. People in third world countries and now tent cities in
first world ones do it all the time.

Crowbar:Stanley 55-136 36-Inch Forged Hexagonal Steel Ripping Bar
A big one. For some tasks such as removing wreckage, a prybay can be
priceless. The typical cheaper ones have hexagonal shapes, but sometimes
you can find better ones, I shaped, for slightly more money. I like
the ones that have a 90º angle, or as close to it as possible, these you
can sometimes hammer into places before levering. Little Tip: If you
have a length of metal tube, it can be used along with the crowbar to
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